Crimea will secure access to referendum for foreign observers, journalists

SIMFEROPOL, March 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Crimean authorities will provide access to the March 16 referendum for observers and foreign journalists, Prime Minister of the autonomy Sergei Aksyonov said on Tuesday.

"We guarantee 100 percent transparent vote count," Aksyonov said noting that Crimea's Supreme Council is drawing proposals for foreign journalists and representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in European on "the possibility of accreditation for taking part in the monitoring of the plebiscite."

"Those cleared by the Supreme Council are welcome. We're happy to see all those who are ready to give a just and objective picture of the current situation in the Crimea," the Kryminform news agency cited Aksyonov as saying.

The primer said "of course, we're not interested in the gentlemen coming here with plans to stage provocations, who do not see what is happening in western Ukraine saying that there are no threats or danger to citizens' life and that everything is bad in Crimea."

People who turn everything upside down "are not our partners, they aren't our friends," Aksyonov underlined.